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Lib-Nat govt reaffirms carbon price repeal
Seemingly flying in the face of the latest United Nations report on climate change Australia’s conservative Liberal-National government has reaffirmed its plans to do away with the country’s price on...
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IPCC: fossil fuels must stay unburned to meet target
To stop temperatures rising beyond a United Nations target that seeks to curb climate-change dangers most known reserves of fossil fuels will need to stay unburned. About 531 billion tonnes of carbon...
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UN climate chief: NSW fires sign of climate ‘doom’
The United Nations has said the bushfires currently raging in parts of Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, are an example of “the doom and gloom” the world may be facing without vigorous...
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Keep price on carbon call from former PM Gillard
Australia’s former Labor prime minister Julia Gillard has used a keynote speech at a conference in the Victorian state capital, Melbourne, to urge federal parliament to keep the price on carbon. The...
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Corporate volunteers go native with Landcare
Lane Cove National Park, in the New South Wales state capital Sydney, has received an environmental lift as up to 150 people from 15 companies learnt new skills at a Landcare Australia Corporate...
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Banksia Foundation 25 years of leading the way
By Kate Aubrey Marketing and Awards Manager Banksia Foundation The Banksia Foundation is a partner with EcoNews and on October 9 last year it celebrated 25 years of promoting individuals and...
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Funds may be forced to recognise climate risk
Tough new recommendations in the United Kingdom governing the types of industries fund managers and pension trusts invest in could be released by the end of the year. It means consultants and advisors...
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Report highlights Australia’s climate of change
A joint report by Australia’s CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology has drawn the country’s rapidly changing climate under global warming into stark contrast. The CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology’s latest...
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PM rejects forest ‘lock up’, angers conservationists
Australia’s conservative Liberal-National Prime Minister Tony Abbott has declared that too many of Australia’s forests are “locked up” and vowed to set up a new advisory council to support the timber...
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Green bank defies Lib-Nat govt, keeps investing
In the face of efforts by Australia’s conservative Liberal-National government to do away with it the country’s ‘green bank’ has made a major investment in new biogas infrastructure that it hopes will...
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China to ‘declare war’ on pollution
Speaking at the opening of the annual meeting of parliament, China’s ruler, Premier Li Keqiang, has said the country is to “declare war” on pollution. The totalitarian government immediately unveiled...
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Reports conclude: pressing need to divest fossil fuels
Two new reports just released conclude over €1 trillion in European financial institutions at risk from a growing carbon bubble, while divestment from fossil fuels will not harm business returns. The...
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Rising seas threaten world’s ‘cultural heritage’
If the world warms by three degrees Celsius then one fifth of the world’s UNESCO world heritage sites will be below sea level, along with the Sydney Opera House. A new report on the effects of climate...
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Garnaut slams Lib-Nat govt’s Direct Action policy
The former Labor government’s climate change adviser and leading Australian economist Professor Ross Garnaut, has said abolishing carbon pricing could cost the federal budget at least $4 billion a year...
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US puts G20 heat on Abbott for climate action
Australia’s conservative Liberal-National Prime Minister has been put in a potentially embarrassing position as the United States steps up pressure for climate change to be a major focus at this year’s...
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EU agrees draft plan for aviation emissions
European Union sources have said the EU has reached a preliminary deal on a law that will exempt long-haul flights from paying for carbon emissions until 2016. The deal is a further weakening of the...
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China tells rich to lead climate change fight
China, the top greenhouse gas emitter, has urged rich nations to do more to lead the fight against climate change and help avert heatwaves, floods and rising sea levels. In a submission to the United...
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EU carbon could soar on faster reform
Analysts at Thomson Reuters Point Carbon have said reforming the European Union’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) before 2021 could add almost 40 per cent to average European carbon prices. Germany’s...
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Climate Council says its been an angry summer
A new Climate Council reports shows Australia has endured another summer of searing temperatures, with more than 150 weather records broken. The Climate Council’s latest Angry Summer report analyses...
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Solar roofs cut power bills for three million Australians
It seems that Australians are very keen to let the sunshine in when it comes to generating electricity and new government figures show that more than three million now live under a solar panel equipped...
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